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brim
08-14-2009, 06:03 AM
I will start out with a question: When I won my first game, I was playing it on my own windows machine, so when I created the .flg I knew exactly where to find it. The game I won this morning was on my girlfriend's Mac. I like Mac's alot, but after most certainly pressing "y" to create a memorial file.... I found nothing anywhere on her machine. Any ideas on how to find it, or did I get screwed?

Skip to last paragraph for exciting part.


That out of the way, this second win of mine was a much more exciting game than my first, not to discount it at all... I started out okay, first kill was assassin, managed to kill keethrax without too much trouble, puppy cave was fine until puppy died from a cat attack in the cavern level. Dove through UD, visited the barbarian and went into the CoC. Dwarf quests were a cinch, by level 15 I had cleared high king cave, gremlins, raided and killed most of the steel golems in darkforge (no artifacts in the treasure rooms though), easily emptied the griffyard and pyramid. I found one PoCC in UD and got one from Keeth's corpse, got SoCR from dwarf mystic and those were the only corruption removal items I found the entire game. Couldn't find a AoLS so kelly died, but i was extremely lucky and the ACW dropped serpent's bite. Up until then, I had been training polearms and two-handed swords in hopes that i would be crowned with Vanquisher and do an ultra later on, but with kelly dead, so much for the ultra.

Once ToEF was done, I dove pretty much straight down to D:48, cleared water and air temples, skipped earth and mana for the time being because I was a bit low on HP and those earth elementals are a bitch. I clear a greater giant vault on D:46 and find both the obsidian sheild and dwarven pike axe. Use casino gold to get crowned (vanquisher, but it hardly got used thanks to serpent's bite + obsidian sheild, oh well!) No artifacts in the casino, but at this point who cares? cleared the remaining temples and dove to D:50.

Here's the exciting part. I clear the hallways with the levers, but in the meantime get hit 3 times by ghost lords. I'm "old" at 75 years and no means of de-aging. There are still a ton of ghosts around. Between primal chaos jellies and balor's I am at Extremely Corrupted, even after using all of my removal items. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I'm pretty sure one more corruption would have been my end... When I close the levers and fisty is dead, I wait around a bit and no one is re-opening them, so I take the chance of leaving hoping no intelligent monsters are still down there. Apparently there weren't, but i have poison hands, no thick gauntlets, and only one stomafilla. No other food. Unequipped all my artifacts and ran like hell. Finally reached the banshee level at Very Hungry! and the corpses there, even with poison hands managed to sate me til I could get to the arena and it's ratling food. Returned to terinyo, did the unicorn quest (hoorah! no more corruptions) and left the chain. I felt like a real badass... And lucky as hell haha! Hope that wasn't too boring.... If I can ever find my .flg I'll post it...

JellySlayer
08-14-2009, 06:57 AM
Here's the exciting part. I clear the hallways with the levers, but in the meantime get hit 3 times by ghost lords. I'm "old" at 75 years and no means of de-aging. There are still a ton of ghosts around. Between primal chaos jellies and balor's I am at Extremely Corrupted, even after using all of my removal items. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I'm pretty sure one more corruption would have been my end... When I close the levers and fisty is dead, I wait around a bit and no one is re-opening them, so I take the chance of leaving hoping no intelligent monsters are still down there. Apparently there weren't, but i have poison hands, no thick gauntlets, and only one stomafilla. No other food. Unequipped all my artifacts and ran like hell. Finally reached the banshee level at Very Hungry! and the corpses there, even with poison hands managed to sate me til I could get to the arena and it's ratling food. Returned to terinyo, did the unicorn quest (hoorah! no more corruptions) and left the chain. I felt like a real badass... And lucky as hell haha! Hope that wasn't too boring.... If I can ever find my .flg I'll post it...

Congrats on the win!

Why didn't you take the shortcut instead of running all the way back through the CoC, out of curiousity? Or, for that matter, just buy some food at the Casino?

FantomFang
08-14-2009, 06:59 AM
What type of char was it? Race/Class?
Otherwise, sounds like it was a crazy ride there at the end. Those are always more fun than the characters that you just know are going to win.

Btw, I've never really used a Mac, but I think they have a different standard for file structure than Windows. I know in Windows the standard is to keep all of the related files together in on area (like all ADOM-related files would stay together) but on Macs don't they get sorted differently, like by filetype or something? not quite sure, but normally on windows the flg always goes to the directory that the adom installation is in...

brim
08-14-2009, 05:32 PM
Congrats on the win!

Why didn't you take the shortcut instead of running all the way back through the CoC, out of curiousity? Or, for that matter, just buy some food at the Casino?

Wow... For some reason that never crossed my mind. As I was returning upwards I noticed there was one level that i completely neglected to explore, stairs were in rooms right next to each other... My guess is the secret passage was on that level and i forgot about it. I also never cleared the associated hallway in Darkforge, only the rest of the level (ran out of construct slaying ammo), not that it matters. As for neglecting the casino... Who knows? Adrenaline probably had me thinking of nothing but getting to the next level up, as I already had the arena in mind as a next stop.

FantomFang, I was a drakish barbarian, as the title of the thread suggests :p


Something rather unfortunate that I forgot to mention: I went until about 2 levels above cat lord before killing a cat, drake's have music after all... I come around a corner and accidentally attack a cat once with serpent's bite. Doesn't kill him, but he's poisoned. I tried to 'g'ive him aluria antidote and PoCP, but of course he refused, as he was a cat. Son of a bitch died on me right before I left the level.

Al-Khwarizmi
08-18-2009, 12:07 AM
Something rather unfortunate that I forgot to mention: I went until about 2 levels above cat lord before killing a cat, drake's have music after all... I come around a corner and accidentally attack a cat once with serpent's bite. Doesn't kill him, but he's poisoned. I tried to 'g'ive him aluria antidote and PoCP, but of course he refused, as he was a cat. Son of a bitch died on me right before I left the level.

Perhaps if you tried to throw the PoCP at him rather than giving it to him, it could have worked. But I'm not sure.